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Single Boomers: Marketing Myths and Mistakes

Bella DePaulo | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business

Read More: “Sex and the City, Single Boomer Women, Single Men, Friends, Sales, Golden Girls, Relationships, Housing, Children, Matrimania, Marital Status, Single Boomers, ” Empty Nesters, Travel, Singles, Myths, Friendship, Boomers, Singlism, Advertising, Spending, Desperate Housewives, Marketing, Consumers, Singled Out, Real Estate, Demographics, Finances, Single Person Households, Business News
Bella DePaulo

Advertising is matrimaniacal, and 55% single people said that they were not in a committed relationship and that they were not looking for one.

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Incomes and spending both slow in April

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Income, Spending, US Economy, Shopping, Business News

WASHINGTON — The first round of economic stimulus checks gave a boost to personal incomes in April but a huge question remains: Will people spen...

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Consumers In Gloomiest Mood Since 1992

Reuters | Pedro Nicolaci da Costa | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Consumer Confidence Low, Economic Downturn, Consumer Confidence, Shopping, Spending, Weak Economy, Consumer Spending, Business News

Consumer confidence plunged unexpectedly to its lowest in 16 years in May as rising gasoline costs and falling home prices made Americans nervous abou...

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Will "Main Street Spoil the Recovery?"

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Recession Fears, Consumer Spending, 2008 Recession, Wall Street, Recession, Spending, Business News
Hale

In light of declining job prospects, record oil and food prices and a slowing economy, it just doesn't seem like the consumer spending will increase in a big way anytime soon.

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Retailers Post Sluggish Sales in March

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Wal-Mart, Retail, Retailers, Spending, Costco, Business News

NEW YORK — With little money left after buying food and fuel, American shoppers handed most retailers their most dismal March in 13 years. As r...

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Budget Would Torpedo Bush's Tax Cuts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Earmarks Ban, Earmarks Moratorium, Earmarks, Spending, Senate, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected calls from both parties' presidential candidates to take an election-year break from pork-barrel spending as a ...

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A Question of Security?

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Defecit, Growth, Iraq, Afghanistan, Recession, Spending, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

If we were to judge our nation's priorities based on her spending, there is only one conclusion. Security means military victory in foreign lands, not economic growth or shared prosperity.

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Ladies Who Launch: It's Just Money, Honey

Amy Swift | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Women and Money, Money, Spending, Fair Pay, Ladies Who Launch, Living News
Amy Swift

This Ladies Who Launch member lays down the law for anyone still who still blushes when writing an invoice.

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We Didn't Do It!

Gerald Bracey | Posted 01.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Crisis, Test Scores, Scapegoats, Spending, Economy, Home News
Gerald Bracey

American educators are, by and large, a passive bunch. Comes the lashing over our alleged failures and we mostly take a "this too shall pass," or an ...

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Have You Ever Had to Struggle to Resist Buying Some Enticing Gewgaw as a Surprise for Your Child?

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 01.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Daily Life, Money, Children, Choice, Spending, Parenthood, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

It's so easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love, or if there's something you want, that you'll be happier with more of it.

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Mommy, It's Not Real Money, It's VISA

Tom Gregory | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business

Read More: Debt, Saving, National Debt, Economics, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Spending, Government Spending, Monopoly, Debt to China, Bush Debt, Credit Card Debt, Business News
Tom Gregory

Eventually America is going to have sell out or do something drastic to service Bush's huge faith-based debt.

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A Holiday Message

Marc Gunther | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business

Read More: Green Shopping, Holiday Shopping, Center for a New American Dream, Spending, Thanksgiving, changingthepresent.com, Non-Profits, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Buy Nothing Day, Carbon Neutral, Green Thanksgiving, Charities, Business News
Marc Gunther

Almost nothing about the holiday shopping season, as it is currently constructed, is sustainable. We're buying (and throwing away) too much.

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Good Lord, Democrats, Don't You See What's Coming?

Dave Johnson | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Pork, Democrats, Budget, Spending, Bush, Politics News
Dave Johnson

Why aren't Democrats and progressives out there NOW with a counter-narrative, explaining to the public why conservatives and their ideology are bad for America?

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